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SPOELSTRA: The Dragon came up right away, but we needed something to identify it locally. I was sitting in my office with Jim Lampariello, our vice president, and I just said, "Every time I look out the window here, I see this swamp. And every time I think of swamps, I think of swamp rats. What about that?"
STERN: I decided not to stop it. I was confident the [Nets] owners would shut it down. They weren't a particularly daring group. And you know, the Meadowlands was an environmentally elite site, with wonderful wildlife. It was protected. It was a swamp. Swamp, to me, is not really a bad word.
SAKAHARA: I thought, "Oh, cool, I get to draw a dragon!" They said, "No, a swamp dragon." I said, "What's that?'"I didn't give a whole of thought to the swamp. I was just excited to draw a dragon. I called him, "Swampy."
They experimented with everything: court designs with a giant dribbling dragon streaking across mid-court; audacious shooting shirts and warmup jackets with dragons of varying sizes, and flames on the sleeves; and much more.
SPOELSTRA: Someone from [Gov.] Christine Whitman's office called me and said they didn't like the Meadowlands being referred to as a a swamp. Well, that's what it is. I don't see any cows grazing there. (Through a spokesperson, Whitman said she didn't recall the Swamp Dragons saga.)
COHEN: Of course, the Meadowlands is in a swamp. It was a colorful name, but I started to wonder if it might draw more ridicule than anything else. How would sponsors feel about sponsoring a team called the Swamp Dragons? We had to think about all of that. I don't know if Chuck Daly [hired in 1993] would have come to coach the Swamp Dragons.
O'GRADY: We spent four or five months on this, and suddenly there was a pushback. We were getting hammered. Hammered. We played around with maybe just calling them Fire Dragons -- to save the dragon, but veer away from the swamp.
SPOELSTRA: Fire Dragons didn't come from us. We wanted Swamp Dragons. The funny thing is, that swamp caught fire every summer anyway. The water would literally burn because of all the chemicals in it. Talk about fire dragons.
Dragon Run, 35 miles of swamp at the headwaters of the Piankatank River, may be the most pristine water body in Virginia, affected least by the changes in the landscape over the last few centuries. The Dragon Run Watershed Management Plan describes it as follows:1
The Dragon Run is a brackish water, tidal/nontidal stream which flows forty miles through the Virginia Middle Peninsula counties of Essex, King and Queen, Middlesex, and Gloucester. Fed by underground springs, surface runoff and numerous feeder swamps, the Dragon Run twists and turns, meandering through the four-county area, eventually emptying at the headwaters of the Piankatank River. The stream, along with the surrounding Dragon Run Swamp, forms an ecologically unique system.
Further upstream for 40 miles, the flat landscape had been created over millions of years. It was formed by the accumulation of eroded sediments from the Piedmont forming the Coastal Plain, by occasional transgressions of the Atlantic Ocean as far west as the Fall Line during which marine sediments were deposited, and by erosion that created a topography so flat that swamps developed. Tannins leach into the slow-moving water from decaying leaves of hardwood trees and bald cypress, creating "blackwater" swamps that send water gradually into Dragon Run.
The threat to Dragon Run is residential development, as urban residents seek to build second homes or retire to waterfront property on the Middle Peninsula. While development of one individual parcel will not wreck local ecology, the incremental cumulative impacts on wildlife, water quality, and other environmental components could transform the swamp. As noted by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality:4
Hidden identities, tragic orphans, secret passages, forbidden swamps, mushroom kingdoms, a mystical weapon... Dragon Swamp is the epitome of High Romance, in the literary fashion. Cheng Pei-pei, Queen of the Wuxia Films, does double duty here playing both mother and daughter, but it's as Qing-er, the daughter, where she really shines. The standout scene for me is at the inn, a classic location for an epic showdown, where crass ruffians slowly menace a bemused Qing-er and the tension builds towards an explosive fight scene that all the ruffians are sure to regret.
The flat landscape that continues for 40 miles continually formed over millions of years. Accumulated eroded sediments as well as natural erosion of the region led to the swamp looking how it did both thousands of years ago and today. Tannins, which are brown/black biomolecules, thrive on dead cypress leaves and other natural decay creating the blackwater swamp.
The Run is crossed by highway bridges, yes, but most put-in locations for paddlers or fishermen require backwoods marches into dense forest. Because this many millions-of-years-old swamp has been protected, its ecosystem is almost identical to how it would have been back in time.
The upper portion is more swamp like, complete with huge cypress trees, blackwater, and flooded wood. The area is beautiful, however, because the region is as natural as can be, that can sometimes cause some extra obstacles that may not arise in a more regulated paddling trail. Local beavers are known to create dams and logjams that can encumber progress. Early spring, then, becomes the best time to paddle Dragon Run because of the high-water levels that allow for better passage.
Swamp dragons are medium-sized dragons which breathe poisonous clouds at you, but are otherwise less threatening than most dragons. You can usually find them in the Swamp, particularly in certain Swamp:4 layouts.
Swamp dragons are good swimmers. Their wide, webbed toes enable them to walk on soft mud. Like the plant dragon, the tendrils on their tail can be used to grab things. Their eyes sit on the top of their heads, so they can see above the water while submerged and dive under if predators approach.
Swamp dragons are bottom feeders, but also eat water plants. They eat duckweed, algae, aquatic plants, snails, worms, detritus and occasionally fish. Some say the swamp dragons living on Blast Furnace are fierce predators hunting for the other dragons living there. That would explain the large population of swamp dragons there compared to the other dragons, and how they survive.
Nethov Swamp is one of Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth's early dungeons, and it has lots of fantastic treasure to find, and ferocious enemies to take on - including an undead dragon boss! You'll only face this dungeon in Normal and Hard mode, so Easy mode players need not apply.
Move one screen backward and then head all the way to the right until you reach a tree - Valkyrie will comment that it looks rotted. Strike it with your sword to topple it, and then use it to cross the swamp. After jumping up to dry land, head to the right and open the sack to get a Charge skill book. This is useful for hard hitters, such as Lawfer.
The Swamp Snapper is a large semi-aquatic creature that resemble a cross between a alligator snapping turtle and a crocodile which has what looks to be armored areas on its body. It is found in bodies of water and is a threat to hatchlings which makes it commonly hunted by adult dragons for food.
A deadly predator to small or immature dragons, the Swamp Snapper prefers moist, cool habitats. They will float at the surface of the water with only their nostrils exposed. Once a Snapper detects movement, they will launch their deadly attack. Grabbing a drinking dragon with their powerful beak, the Snapper will then attempt to drag its prey back into the depths.
Though fearsome, Swamp Snappers are not the most intelligent creatures and may underestimated the size of their target, latching onto more than they can handle. This makes them easy targets for skilled adult dragons looking to lure out this aquatic creature.
"Draco vulgaris" literally means "common dragon". These dragons are generally called swamp dragons because they evolved in swamps, where there is rather little that can be used as fuel, and this is a problem for animals that create flame to incubate eggs, fight off enemies, predators, and other dragons (competitors for food or territory), or just to dispel boredom. Swamp dragons compensate for this by evolving a huge appetite for anything that can be used for combustion. Swamp dragons can rearrange their "internal plumbing", guts, stomach, other miscellaneous tubes, to make the best use of what they have eaten, and to make the hottest flame they can. When having indigestion (a common ailment for swamp dragons), or being over-excited, a dragon tends to explode, which is the most common (practically the only) cause of death for swamp dragons. Swamp dragons are almost permanently ill; the famous swamp dragon breeder, Lady Sybil Ramkin, has written a book listing all swamp dragon diseases, their symptoms, causes, treatments, and so on.
Swamp dragons can grow up to about two feet long. All have wings although for some the wings are only ornamental. Swamp dragons can fly, and have to answer to real physics when they do (see Noble dragon (Draco nobilis) for a comparison).
Nowadays, there is a trend among nobles and other rich people to keep swamp dragons as pets. There are breeders' associations, many breeders being rich enthusiasts rather than commercial mass-producers. There are competitions and judging. There are many breeds of swamp dragons with different looks, different personalities and, last but not least, different propensity toward exploding. Swamp dragon breeders are careful to give their dragons the right amounts of coal, charcoal, and some other supplements. This does not always keep the dragon in one piece.
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